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Published online 18 June 2008 | Nature 453, 969 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453969c
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Anti-AIDS vitamin advertising banned
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This reporting is terrible, as bad as the BBC's. The fact that this was specifically about an illegal trial conducted by Matthias Rath *of his own proprietary concoctions* should be upfront, the fact that Rath was claiming vitamins were involved is tangential. These stories make it sound like TAC is against appropriate studies of vitamins and other micronutrients (and that any such trials have somehow been banned by this decision), which is both utterly false and also plays into the hands of Rath and his anti-science AIDS denialist colleagues. David Rasnick, it should also be noted, is a longtime colleague of Peter Duesberg.